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| 1975 |
| | | The South Vietnamese capital, Saigon, is taken by North Vietnamese forces | |
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| 1976 |
| | | The incumbent president Gerald Ford is defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter in the US election | |
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| 1977 |
| | | A treaty provides for the gradual transfer of the Canal Zone from US to Panamanian control | |
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| 1978 |
| | | Anwar el-Sadat and Menachem Begin sign an Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty at Camp David in the USA | |
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| 1979 |
| | | Supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini seize the US embassy in Tehran, taking hostage 66 US citizens | |
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| 1980 |
| | | A US helicopter mission fails disastrously in its attempt to rescue the embassy hostages in Tehran | |
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| 1980 |
| | | Republican Ronald Reagan wins the US presidential election against the incumbent Jimmy Carter | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Iran releases the US embassy hostages immediately after the end of Jimmy Carter's presidency | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan share a common economic viewpoint, following the policy known as monetarism | |
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| 1981 |
| | | President Reagan is shot outside a hotel in Washington by John W. Hinckley Jr, but survives | |
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